# Amputations at International Paper Company
> OSHA SIR `2022021831` · 2/27/2022 · TAMPA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** International Paper Company
- **Location:** 6706 N 53rd St., TAMPA, FLORIDA, 33610
- **NAICS:** 424110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was dumping a trash hopper (carried by a forklift) into an outside dumpster. As the employee was releasing a lever on the hopper with their right hand, their left middle finger was caught between the hopper and the forklift fork. The employee suffered a partial amputation from the first knuckle to the tip of the finger.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*